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Take a sonic journey through Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, London, Stockholm and Berlin with this characteristic collection of immersive atmospheres. European Capitals is an exclusive specialty library featuring nearly 20 hours of authentic city ambience recordings for an array of scenes in European life.
Recorded by award-winning sound designer Ken Skoglund (The Duel, Fire With Fire), with the assistance of Anna Bertmark and Eric Eklund, the European Capitals library pristinely captures the essence of six major cities. Each surround ambience transports your audience to iconic and everyday locations – from the Louvre museum in Paris to a small pub in Amsterdam and beyond. This library delivers walla sound effects in various languages, public places, train announcements, boats and dock ambience, traffic, birds, and many more location-specific sonic indicators.
Sounds for each city are delivered in both 5.1 Surround and Stereo. Each sound file is embedded with descriptive metadata including a photo from the exact recording location for your reference. Grab the whole collection, or select a specific city to drop straight into your project.
Ken Skoglund: Recordist (Berlin, Rome, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Paris)
Anna Bertmark: Recordist (London)
Eric Eklund: Recordist and photographer (Stockholm)
Arno Verstappen: Assistant Editor
Ronnie Lundquist: Photographer (Berlin, Amsterdam, Stockholm)
Anton Söderhäll: Photographer (Rome)
Odd Hagel: Photographer (Paris)
Joss Albert: Photographer (London)
Sonomar Collection: Abandoned is a sound effects library of 346 haunting atmospheres and location-specific recordings. Add authentic textures to your projects steeped in the acoustic properties of desolation and emptiness, or take advantage of the 96kHz sample rate to manipulate as source material for creative sound design.
Armed with a wide array of stereo and Ambisonic microphones, sound designer and recordist Martin Pinsonnault (Big Little Lies, Dallas Buyers Club) and the team at Sonomar bravely ventured into the darkness, capturing sounds from three distinct abandoned buildings throughout Canada including an asylum, prison, and hospital.
Abandoned Asylum contains 56 sounds including room tones, eerie footsteps and scattered debris movements.
Abandoned Prison contains 118 sounds featuring jarring metallic impacts, prison door squeals and bleak ambiences.
Abandoned Hospital contains 131 recordings of resonant ambiences, foley elements such as hospital bed rattles and surgeon’s tools, and haunting designs “”worldized”” through a guitar amp and re-recorded to capture the powerful essence of the location. This collection includes 24 ambisonic recordings that are also available in stereo, as well as 17 additional 5.1 surround sound files created from the source content.
Each sound file is embedded with diligent metadata to help you find the exact sound effect you need with fast, pinpoint search. Enable creativity with detailed descriptions of each recording encompassing both literal sonic qualities as well as the images they invoke. Advanced metadata fields include translated French descriptions and additional info to ensure compatibility across any database search platform such as Soundminer, BaseHead, Netmix, Workspace (Pro Tools), Find Tool (Media Composer), Media Bay (Nuendo), Reaper, Adobe Premiere, and beyond. Sonomar Collection: Abandoned is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Pro.
Recorded by renowned innovators of film sound design Ann Kroeber and Alan Splet, the Beautiful Bugs library features an expressive collection of natural and designed insect sound effects including rhythmic cicada swells, dense locust drones, mosquito cries, isolated fly buzzes and more.
The impressive spectrum of emotion conjured by these artful insect recordings ranges from ominous, frightening, irritating, and disgusting all the way to lonely, tranquil, and soothing. Inject mystery and surrealism in your scenes or add unique character and texture to your creature design with impressionistic buzzy swarms, chirpy choruses, and heavy rhythmic pulsing.
Following the acclaimed sound libraries Cinematic Winds, Industrial Sounds with Soul, and Beautiful Bugs is the fourth exclusive release by Pro Sound Effects curated from Sound Mountain: Kroeber and Splet’s venerable private recording collection created over decades of film sound work. Kroeber has since worked on or supplied sounds for film, television, and games – including 6 movies that won an Academy Award® in sound, and 7 additional nominations.
The Beautiful Bugs library brings you 88 insect sound effects that were recorded and designed while working on major feature films including David Lynch’s Blue Velvet and Peter Weir’s The Mosquito Coast. These masterful recordings were captured on excursions in the jungle of Belize, the Alaskan wilderness, muggy summertime North Carolina, and an insect lab in Berkeley, California.
Rich, descriptive embedded metadata helps you find the exact sound effect you need with descriptions that detail the emotional power of the recordings beyond the practical interpretations.
Beef up your creature sound design with the deep intensity of the Wildlife Collection: Grizzly Bear sound effects library. With 146 expressive bear sound effects and vocalizations, these high-quality recordings contain a wide variety of grunts, roars, sniffs, mouth smacks, and purrs that are ready for naturalistic use or manipulation for sound design applications.
Recorded at 24-bit/192kHz using multiple microphones including the Sanken CO-100K, which captures and maintains up to 100kHz (rather than 20kHz from other microphones), field recordist and sound designer Chris Diebold (Spider-Man: Homecoming, Transformers: The Last Knight) captured the unique vocalizations and slimy mouth-noises of an old aged male Grizzly bear. Use the natural and characteristic recordings of deep groans, slimy chews, and heavy breaths for pitch processing and control over your sound design, to design your beasts, creatures, monsters and more.
In addition to these raw bear recordings, this collection also contains 41 designed and “hyped” sounds, ready to drag-and-drop directly into your monstrous designs and animalistic scenes. Each sound file is embedded with rich, descriptive metadata for fast, intuitive search results to help increase efficiency and sustain creativity.
Invigorate your animal and creature designs with the sprightly sounds of Wildlife Collection: Capuchin Monkeys. Featuring 81 exotic monkey sound effects, this library delivers a wide variety of vivacious chirps, screeches, chitters and grunts to design your wild creatures, fill out jungle scenes, and more.
These colorful capuchin monkey vocalizations were captured by recordist and sound designer Chris Diebold (Spider-Man: Homecoming, Transformers: The Last Knight) with multiple microphones, including the Sanken CO-100K, which captures and maintains up to 100kHz (rather than 20kHz from other microphones). Delivered at the high sample rate of 192kHz, these authentic, high-quality monkey recordings are ripe for pitch processing and control over your creative sound design.
In addition to the raw recordings, this collection also contains pre-designed and “hyped” sounds ready to drag-and-drop directly into your projects. Each sound file is embedded with rich, descriptive metadata for fast, intuitive search results to help increase efficiency and sustain creativity.
Recorded by pioneer of film sound design, Ann Kroeber, the Ann’s Animals library showcases a unique variety of animal sounds and vocalizations. Including common, wild, and exotic creatures – ranging from pigs and frogs to capuchin monkeys, caribou and more – this special collection is equally useful and inspiring for practical sound editing and creative sound design.
Animal recordings play a significant role in Kroeber’s sonic legacy, and she is widely celebrated for her natural approach and incredibly expressive results. Her sense of presence with the animals and finely tuned listening shines through in these sounds – from the gentle, subtle breaths and purrs of cheetahs to a sprawling chorus of jungle frogs. Create thoughtful and powerful creature designs with these characteristic animal roars, shrieks, snorts, cries, buzzes, and more.
Following the acclaimed sound libraries Cinematic Winds, Industrial Sounds with Soul, Stallion, and Beautiful Bugs, Ann’s Animals is the fifth exclusive release by Pro Sound Effects curated from Sound Mountain: Kroeber’s venerable private recording collection created over decades of film sound work with her late husband, Alan Splet. Kroeber has since worked on or supplied sounds for film, television, and games – including 6 movies that won an Academy Award® in sound, and 7 additional nominations.
Each sound file in this library is embedded with rich, detailed metadata to help you find the exact sound effect you need with descriptions that that go beyond the literal to detail the emotional power of these unique recordings. Ann’s Animals is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Standard.
Crafted by iconic sound designer and composer Alan Howarth (Army of Darkness, Total Recall, Bram Stoker’s Dracula), the Cinematic Dread library includes eerie drones, textured atmospheres, and more ready-to-use sound effects to instantly add anxiety and otherworldly energy to your fantasy, horror and sci-fi projects.
Right in time for Halloween, Cinematic Dread delivers 74 foreboding sci-fi and horror sound effects to induce fear and tension in your scenes – including buzzy alien swells, evil choral winds, swirling vortexes, ghostly underwater hums, demonic resonance and more.
Add mood and texture to your designs with the authentic character of sounds direct from the imagination of a horror/sci-fi master. With Howarth’s influential specialization in both sound design and composition – evident in dozens of noteworthy credits including the original Star Trek films, collaborations with John Carpenter (Halloween II, They Live, Escape from New York) and more – this collection provides the perfect mysterious and sinister soundscapes for all of your supernatural sonic needs.
Each sound file is embedded with rich metadata to help you find the exact sound effect you need with quick, intuitive search. Fuel creativity with descriptions characterizing each recording with both realistic depictions and emotional interpretations of each sound effect. Cinematic Dread is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Pro.
The Indy Cars race car sound effects library delivers an action-packed day at the races. Craft exciting and authentic racing scenes in your projects with immersive interior driving sequences, expansive racetrack ambiences, lively pit crew sounds, and roaring race car pass-bys.
Recorded by iconic sound designer and composer Alan Howarth (Army of Darkness, Total Recall) at various indy car tracks including the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, the street circuit of Long Beach, and the Laguna Seca Raceway, these racecar recordings will transport your projects straight into the excitement of race day. Create a genuine racetrack atmosphere with the energetic crowd and booming PA announcements, and utilize the thrilling energy of indy car engine sounds for vehicles in your films and games.
Each sound file is embedded with detailed metadata to help you find the exact sound you need with quick, intuitive search.
Recorded and designed by film sound legends Ann Kroeber and Alan Splet (well known for their work with David Lynch), the Cinematic Winds sound effects library delivers diverse recordings from eerie, hollow wind sounds to whipping, stormy moodscapes.
Cinematic Winds is an exclusive collection of sound effects selected from the venerable Kroeber-Splet private recording archive, Sound Mountain. “Of all the sounds from our library, the wind recordings are some of the most iconic and evocative,” says Ann Kroeber, having created an extensive sound catalog with her late partner Splet over decades of pioneering their craft.
Wind is one of the most difficult elements to record. This is why Pro Sound Effects is proud to offer this carefully curated library from two artful sound designers and recordists we have tremendous respect for. Take your next sound design project to the next level by dragging and dropping the work of Kroeber and Splet into your scene.
This special collection includes over 3 hours of 24-bit/48kHz WAV format wind effects and recordings perfect for inducing subtle, subconscious emotion, imposing a powerful presence, and creating earthy or surreal soundscapes in your production.
Descriptive embedded metadata helps you find exactly the sound you need with practical, literal interpretations as well as emotional impressions of the sound effects. The wind sounds are grouped into five categories:
Cinematic Winds is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Standard.
Performed on a experimental, custom-built rig with intense manipulation of objects and tools on a bass guitar string, the Sonomar Collection: Bass Machine sound library features 720 abstract sound design elements to serve as your go-to solution for mysterious designs. Add an otherworldly layer of depth and emotion to your projects with swirling metallic feedback, tensions, eerie engine drones, and gritty metallic vibrations.
At over 15GB, Bass Machine delivers 70 raw sound files and 650 designed sound effects. Recorded with contact mics and guitar pickups at 192kHz, the raw sounds provide uniquely organic building blocks for processing and manipulation. The acoustic isolation and high resolution of each file makes these sounds incredibly flexible for editing and ripe for imaginative sound design. The collection’s designed sounds have been expertly sculpted, pitched, and processed at 96kHz using parts of the raw files. Use these as inspiration for your own design potential, or drop straight into your projects to instantly add expressive tension, harmonic activity, and compelling dimension.
As the first exclusive Sonomar Collection release from Pro Sound Effects, Bass Machine demonstrates the sonic curiosity of sound designer and recordist Martin Pinsonnault (Big Little Lies, Dallas Buyers Club) and the Sonomar team. Together they created the contraption, recorded and performed sounds over many hours of experimentation with the instrument, and then meticulously trimmed, designed, and organized the results for a truly generous and limitless sound library.
Each sound file is embedded with rich metadata to help you find the exact sound effect you need with fast, pinpoint search. Sustain creativity with characteristic descriptions of each recording encompassing both literal sonic qualities as well as the images they invoke. Advanced metadata fields include translated French descriptions and additional info to ensure compatibility across any database search platform such as Soundminer, BaseHead, Netmix, Workspace (Pro Tools), Find Tool (Media Composer), Media Bay (Nuendo), Reaper, Adobe Premiere, and beyond.
Sonomar Collection: Bass Machine is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Standard.
Orchestrate the lush composition of the jungle with the Borneo Rainforest sound effects library. With over 120 recordings from the Borneo Rainforest in Indonesia, these jungle sound effects are abundant with life — featuring choruses of crickets, cicadas, birds, frogs, bees, owls, and more.
Recorded in pristine quality by field recordist and sound designer Chris Diebold (Spider-Man: Homecoming, Transformers: The Last Knight), these sounds encompass the many dense sonic layers of the rainforest with dripping rain, rich wildlife, tree and brush movement. For additional immersion into the soundscape of Indonesia, there are additional recordings of quaint, everyday life in the nearby Iban Tribal Village, and the unique bustling city sounds of Putussibau and Pontianak.
Featuring a variety of designed sounds in addition to the raw recordings, create and compose your scenes with magical-sounding birds and giant croaky frogs for a fantastical and dreamy nighttime jungle choir. Each sound file is embedded with rich, descriptive metadata for fast, intuitive search results to help increase efficiency and sustain creativity.
The Urban Elements sound effects library delivers all of the sonic ingredients you need to seamlessly customize your city environments. Fill out your metropolitan soundscape with over 300 city recordings captured by sound designer Eric A. Norris (Ford v Ferrari, Spider-Man: Homecoming), including vehicles like cars, buses, and motorcycles, plus tire squeals, isolated horn honks, pedestrian vocalizations, emergency sirens, and more.
Recorded above the constant sonic energy of the iconic Hollywood & Vine intersection in Los Angeles, these pristine, indirect city sound effects were captured with a natural reverb that blends perfectly into any city background. Build your urban environment with the sounds of helicopter flyovers, street drummers, trash can clatters, car alarms, and more. Create sonically rich and realistic downtown cityscapes with the flexibility of clean, individual elements of urban life.
Descriptive embedded metadata helps you find exactly the sound you need to quickly find the components you need to start creating your bustling boroughs and active city-centers.
Urban Elements is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Standard.
The Sonomar Collection: Trains is a collection of 53 train recordings that is sure to embolden your projects with the raw power of a 200-ton diesel locomotive. Explore the vast array of steam hisses, metal clanks, and squeals that this library has to offer. Use this versatile collection to provide your scenes with train arrivals, departures, and idles, or enhance them with crossing bells, air valve releases, and passenger walla.
This library features a wide variety of trains including a 1907 steam train, modern electric commuter trains, diesel freight trains and more. From simple pass bys and horn blasts to the unique rattles of wagon couplings connecting, supply your project with the specific train sound your scene requires. Lengthy onboard recordings and train station ambiences allow you to supplement your scenes with an authentic backdrop.
Each sound file is embedded with diligent metadata to help you find the exact sound effect you need with fast, pinpoint search. Enable creativity with detailed descriptions of each recording encompassing both literal sonic qualities as well as the images they invoke. Advanced metadata fields ensure compatibility across any database search platform such as Search by PSE, Soundminer, BaseHead, Netmix, Workspace (Pro Tools), Find Tool (Media Composer), Media Bay (Nuendo), Reaper, Adobe Premiere, and beyond.
The Sonomar Collection: Pianos sound effects library began with a curious question: What new and unconventional sounds can be made with a piano for use in sound design?
The result is 652 enigmatic sounds exploring the sonic properties of various pianos to create suspense and tension in your audio projects. Created by sound designer and recordist Martin Pinsonnault (Big Little Lies, Dallas Buyers Club) and the Sonomar team, the Pianos library blurs the line between music and sound design – captured at 192kHz using contact mics and an MKH-8040 for endless possibilities in pitching and processing.
Available in three unique collections, this expressive library combines the resonant nature of pianos with experimental approaches to recording, performing, and preparing this classic instrument:
Pianos – Broken contains 63 rusty, grinding, rhythmic growling piano hits for eerie roars and anxiety-inducing resonances. Includes percussive performance by Thomas Brodeur from the Sonomar team.
Pianos – Prepared features 539 textured punches, decays, chords and notes – ripe with complex harmonics, string rattles and vibrations. Created by placing objects on the strings of a piano with performance by Mingan Sauriol.
Pianos – Designed expresses the limitless possibilities of the raw recordings with pitched and processed sounds ready to drag-and-drop directly into your designs.
Each sound file is embedded with rich metadata to help you find the sounds you need with a fast and precise search. Unique descriptions of each recording encompass both literal sonic qualities as well as the images they invoke to enhance your creative workflow. Advanced metadata fields include translated French descriptions and additional info to ensure compatibility across any database search platform such as Soundminer, BaseHead, Netmix, Workspace (Pro Tools), Find Tool (Media Composer), Media Bay (Nuendo), Reaper, Adobe Premiere, and beyond.
Experience the power of magnetic force with Sonomar Collection: Magnetic, featuring over 1,600 designed impacts, rattles and scrapes as well as the 200+ raw recordings used to create them. With deep tonal resonances, subtle debris rattles and sharp impacts, Magnetic offers a wide variety of high quality recordings for your sound design needs that showcase all aspects of magnetic attraction. Use it as a toolkit to design pulses, subs, punches and beyond.
To capture these sounds, sound designer and recordist Martin Pinsonnault (Big Little Lies, Dallas Buyers Club) and the team at Sonomar amassed a collection of magnets – ranging from small watch batteries to large speaker magnets and a variety of metal objects. Using MKH-8040 microphones in an XY setup, Sonomar recorded numerous vibrations, collisions and resonances resulting from a wide range of magnetic intensity. The high sample rate of 192kHz opens up limitless potential for pitching and processing, a feature that is masterfully exemplified by the designed sounds within the collection that are ready to use in your audio projects.
Each sound file is embedded with diligent metadata to help you find the exact sound effect you need with fast, pinpoint search. Enable creativity with detailed descriptions of each recording encompassing both literal sonic qualities as well as the images they invoke. Advanced metadata fields include translated French descriptions and additional info to ensure compatibility across any database search platform such as Soundminer, BaseHead, Netmix, Workspace (Pro Tools), Find Tool (Media Composer), Media Bay (Nuendo), Reaper, Adobe Premiere, and beyond.
Sonomar Collection: Magnetic is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Pro.
Skillfully performed using glasses as instruments, Sonomar Collection: Crystal Sing features 46 clean, high quality recordings of ringing vibrations perfectly suited for your harmonic tonal needs. This unique collection contains sonorous ringing tones at various pitches as well as sharp squeaks and rubs. Use the raw recordings to add hypnotic resonant layers to your projects, or alter them to experience the depth of Crystal Sing’s harmonic range.
To capture these sounds, sound designer and recordist Martin Pinsonnault (Big Little Lies, Dallas Buyers Club) and the Sonomar team used six different types of glasses including Ricard, cognac and champagne flute glasses. The tonal vibrations created by rubbing a wet finger along the rim of the glass were recorded in 192kHz with MKH-8040 microphones in ORTF setup. Each glass produced its own pitch and tone dependent on its size, shape, and the amount of water added. The rich high frequency response and minimal noise make these clean harmonic tones ideal for pitching and processing.
Each sound file is embedded with comprehensive metadata to help you find the exact sound effect you need with fast, pinpoint search. Enable creativity with detailed descriptions of each recording and their specific sonic qualities. Advanced metadata fields include translated French descriptions and additional info to ensure compatibility across any database search platform such as Soundminer, BaseHead, Netmix, Workspace (Pro Tools), Find Tool (Media Composer), Media Bay (Nuendo), Reaper, Adobe Premiere, and beyond.
Sonomar Collection: Crystal Sing is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Standard.
The Sonomar Collection: Blacksmith sound effects library features 155 recordings from a blacksmith’s workshop that are sure to strengthen your scenes with an authentic, ironclad edge. Use the pristine sounds of metal clanks, sizzles, and scrapes as building blocks for creative sound design or as a backdrop for industrial or medieval settings.
Ringing clanks of hammers striking anvils. Sharp sizzles of hot iron submerged in water. Subtle scrapes of shoveling metal files and coal. This collection is sure to supply your project with the detailed, high-quality smithing sounds you require. With a sample rate of 96kHz, utilize this diverse selection of impacts and hisses for creative pitching and processing. In addition to isolated actions, Blacksmith contains a number of Ambience recordings that can be used to add a hardy backdrop to your scenes for period pieces and beyond. This library was recorded using three different microphones, including the Sennheiser MKH 8040, which records up to 50kHz and allows for more sound design options.
Each sound file is embedded with diligent metadata to help you find the exact sound effect you need with fast, pinpoint search. Enable creativity with detailed descriptions of each recording encompassing both literal sonic qualities as well as the images they invoke. Advanced metadata fields ensure compatibility across any database search platform such as Search by PSE, Soundminer, BaseHead, Netmix, Workspace (Pro Tools), Find Tool (Media Composer), Media Bay (Nuendo), Reaper, Adobe Premiere, and beyond.
Shanghai Ambisonics is a sound effects library of 33 immersive urban ambience recordings, provided in both B-format and stereo, along with “”virtual mic”” software.
Adjust perspective of these city atmospheres in real-time with included software for utmost flexibility, realism, and creativity. Point “virtual microphones” in any direction with the polar pattern of your choice to match the specific setting of a scene.
The Ambisonics recordings can be decoded to mono, stereo, 5.1, 7.1 and beyond, allowing for versatile use of the library. Pre-rendered stereo versions are included as well.
Recorded in 24-bit/96kHz with a SoundField SPS200 mic by Masato Ushijima, Shanghai Ambisonics was captured at diverse locations throughout the city including Maglev & Metro Train Stations, Century Park, Nanjing Road, Huangpu River Ferry, The Shanghai IFC and more. The library contains sounds that are unique to Shanghai as well as more general purpose urban ambiences.
This library is perfect for use in immersive audio for VR and 360 video projects. Prepare your personal sound library for the future of media!
Make use of the diverse mechanized noises from a standard office printer, scanner, and copier in your audio projects!
Print is a boutique sound effects library of automated clicking, beeping, and whirring sounds all captured from a single Ricoh® laser printer. Every action, setting, and component of the machine was pristinely recorded to give you high-quality printer sound effects including the paper feed, scanner bed, duplexer and more.
These printer recordings are perfect for office backgrounds. And they are equally useful in the sound design of retro-futuristic devices, robotic creatures, electronic gadgets, and steampunk industrial machines. The Print library also includes several pre-designed steampunk sound effects ready for immediate use.
Print is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Standard.
Colin Hart: Recordist, Editor
Joseph DiMarco: Editor, Librarian
The Paris Ambisonics sound effects library is a collection of 73 immersive city ambience recordings from the streets, plazas, and parks of Paris, France. Use these versatile sounds to enliven your scenes with an authentic city atmosphere.
Recorded in 24-bit/96kHz with a Sennheiser AMBEO VR mic, Paris Ambisonics was captured at various locations throughout Paris including the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg Park and more. To capture these stunning ambiences, recordist Matt Snedecor traversed Paris with the goal of depicting its unique essence characterized by narrow streets, outdoor cafes, scooters and sirens. Be it bustling cab rides through dense boulevards or the resonant underbelly of the Arc de Triomphe, these authentic recordings embody the vibrant and dynamic spirit of Paris.
Delivered in both Ambisonic and stereo formats, each audio file is embedded with rich descriptions for quick intuitive search results. Detailed metadata includes coordinates and cross streets for maximum geographic clarity.
This library includes SurroundZone2 software by TSL Products that allows you to control the Ambisonics files by pointing “virtual microphones” any direction with a wide range of polar patterns. Unparalleled flexibility lets users match backgrounds with the specific setting of any scene and decode to mono, stereo, 5.1, 7.1 and beyond. These recordings are also perfect for 3D Audio applications including VR and 360º video.
Matt Snedecor
Breathe life into your urban scenes with the authentic energy of the NYC Ambisonics Vol. 2 sound effects library. Create pristine backgrounds for everyday applications and specific locations – including tucked-away Brooklyn streets, MTA subway platforms, the New York Public Library, the rumble of midtown Manhattan, the bustling sounds of Grand Central Station, and more.
NYC Ambisonics Vol. 2 features 90 high-quality B-format ambiences with bundled software that allows you to point “virtual microphones” in any direction in real-time with a wide range of polar patterns. Captured by recordist Coll Anderson, this library features 24-bit/96kHz Ambisonics recordings from hand-picked locations throughout New York City, with a focus on Manhattan and Brooklyn. Pre-rendered stereo versions of all of the recordings are also included.
As a follow-up to Pro Sound Effects’ popular NYC Ambisonics library, and the latest addition to the Urban Ambisonics Bundle, NYC Ambisonics Vol. 2 maintains the standard of quality while expanding the sonic offering to a range of useful new locations.
The Ambisonics recordings can be decoded to mono, stereo, 5.1, 7.1 and beyond. In addition to giving sound editors and mixers greater flexibility and control over the recordings, these recordings are also perfect for 3D Audio applications including VR and 360º video.
Coll Anderson
Your DAW must support Quad (4-channel) tracks in order to use SurroundZone2 plug-in.
Produced and recorded by Pro Sound Effects, NYC Ambisonics is a library of New York City ambiences recorded with a SoundField microphone.
The Ambisonics format allows sound editors and mixers to tweak “virtual microphones” in real time with included software. The Ambisonics recordings can be decoded to mono, stereo, 5.1, 7.1 and beyond. The creative possibilities are endless!
“Very well recorded…especially the ride on the New York subway as well as the subway platform, and Chinatown is full of life.” – Pro Tools Expert Review
NYC Ambisonics features 53 high-quality B-format ambiences (nearly 7 hours total) and is bundled with SurroundZone2, software that allows you to point “virtual microphones” in any direction with a wide range of polar patterns. The library features 24-bit/96kHz Ambisonics recordings from all over New York City, including Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan. Pre-rendered stereo versions of all of the recordings are also included.
In addition to giving sound editors and mixers greater flexibility and control over the recordings, NYC Ambisonics is also perfect for 3D Audio applications including VR and 360º video.
New York City has never sounded better!
NYC Ambisonics is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Standard.
Performed and captured using a specially-constructed metal sculpture, Metalmorphosis features 600 high-quality sounds perfect for adding a dramatic, unsettling edge to your projects. Featuring booming metallic groans, wandering wails and piercing squeals, this collection yearns to texture your sound design with character and provide the groundwork for boundless creativity.
Forged in the spirit of authenticity, the creation of Metalmorphosis began with the construction of a one-of-a-kind layered steel sculpture designed for the sole purpose of generating dense, full-bodied metallic noise. By dragging a violin bow across the contraption, recordist Colin Lechner craftily conceived sonorous layers of scrapes and grinds to add tension and texture to any project and design. These sounds are ideal for injecting your scenes with a shocking, mysterious element and are sure to raise hairs and heart rate alike.
Recorded with high-quality condenser microphones including an AKG C414, Neumann U87, and a Schoeps CMC 6U/MK 22, these resonant screeches and squeals are masterfully recorded for the utmost sonic clarity. The 9GB of raw sounds can be used to add a layer of mystery and shock to your projects, or altered to fit your creative needs. Recorded at the high sample rate of 192kHz, these sounds are ideal for experimental manipulation, giving you the freedom to pitch and process to seemingly no end. Get lost in this comprehensive collection with hundreds of variations at your disposal.
London Ambisonics is a collection of 55 immersive city ambience recordings from the streets, parks and subways of London, England. Use these versatile sounds to enliven your scenes with an authentic city atmosphere. Recorded in 24-bit/96kHz with a Sennheiser AMBEO VR mic, London Ambisonics was captured at various locations throughout London including St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Palace Theatre, the River Thames and more. Detailed metadata includes coordinates and cross streets for maximum geographic clarity.
To capture these stunning ambiences, recordist Matt Snedecor traversed London with the goal of capturing its essence. In his own words:
“London, although there’s a lot of English, just has a different feel and sound than a major US city. So I was partly looking for urban sounds, but also getting the feel of the city itself. It was definitely not as big and loud as NYC and there’s also things like different sirens and horns than we have here.”
This library includes SurroundZone2 software by TSL Products that allows you to control the Ambisonics files by pointing “virtual microphones” any direction with a wide range of polar patterns. Unparalleled flexibility lets users match backgrounds with the specific setting of any scene.
The Ambisonics recordings can be decoded to mono, stereo, 5.1, 7.1 and beyond. In addition to giving sound editors and mixers greater flexibility and control over the recordings, these recordings are also perfect for 3D Audio applications including VR and 360º video.
Matt Snedecor
Your DAW must support Quad (4-channel) tracks in order to use SurroundZone2 plug-in.
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